FINAL GIRL explores the slasher flicks of the '70s and '80s...and all the other horror movies I feel like talking about, too. This is life on the EDGE, so beware yon spoilers!

Sep 17, 2010

awesome movie poster friday - the EDWIGE FENECH edition!

Friends, yesterday I was faced with a dilemma that most every horror fan is faced with at one time or another. It went something like this: like most every horror fan, I love Edwige Fenech. Yet, I have never seen The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (aka Blade of the Ripper). Lo and behold, I came across a VHS copy of the USA release of the film, under the title Next Victim. Now, I know that edition has about 15 minutes cut out of it (stupid America), but the wondrous DVD release is out of print and selling for approximately ONE MILLION DOLLARS. Okay, maybe $70. But still, even I won't pay that much for a DVD. So. Do I pick up the VHS? Well, it was only two bucks, so yes, I picked it up. Now, however, I debate if it's worth watching. I suppose it is, but the entire time I'll wonder what I'm missing.

So there's my dilemma, which I guess isn't really a dilemma and honestly, I'm not sure why I shared it at all beyond, you know, how sharing is nice and the such. It does tell you what caused me to do the FENECH edition of AMPF, though, so I guess my lame story was worth something after all!

Wow, I either need a lot more coffee or a lot less.

PS - No, I didn't include Hostel II because looking at the posters for it, they just didn't seem like it would fit in with all of these beauts. New vs old, everything was better back then, blah blah blah.

I'm going to copy and paste - technology, ho! - the comment I left on your Facebook page to here because maybe then I can get twice the rec's! Anyway...

A hypothetical person I know in Canada hasn't seen enough of her movies. If this hypothetical person I know in Canada were going to seek out her movies, which ones should this hypothetical person I know in Canada see? Just hypothetically, of course.

But besides that, I really like the Hostel Part II poster with the image of my beloved Heather Matarazzo dangling upside down, I gotta say. The meat one too. They're def. a different vibe than these classic ones, but I think those two make for successful modern posters.

But they don't come close to freaking me out like that one with the melting eyes and warped screaming face thru the giant keyhole. JINKIES.

I love Wardh and All the Colors of the Dark. "Un Delitto poco comune" was released in the US as "Phantom of Death". It stars Michael York as a pianist who moonlights as some sort of ninja, and might be a serial killer, but then gets his face burned and becomes the phantom of the opera. I swear to Christ.

god i love Fenech.Love the posters, esp the Doctoor Jekyll one with the rolling pin & the All the Colours of the Dark one with the bloody hand.

Re the overpriced, OOP DVD of Strange Vice... THe film is also available as Blad of the Ripper from MYA (this is sorta the same guys as NoShame, now that NoShame is defunct)It's the same print of the film, with the English dub track and the Italian with subs. It doesn't have the cool extras that the OOP NoShame version had, but you get a non boot copy of the film with a nice print with subs for about $20 i think.